Well I don't side with either party because I seem to fall on both sides depending on the issues, but in this situation I fall on the side of work for your fucking money!
If I hadn't done so myself I think I'd more easily understand the other side, or if I had injuries or issues that kept me out of work for some reason or another. Unfortunately, I worked 4 jobs at once at one point, and currently work 70 hour weeks and have only called out sick twice in 15 years. I've worked 60+ hrs per week since I was about 23 and I'm in the food industry though, so you work when you're sick, injured, pregnant, etc.- no crybabies kinda thing. I worked my through college and culinary school and paid off all my debts and bought a franchise restaurant eventually and later built my own full scale restaurant.
It's my experience I have to blame for making me feel the way I do about handouts and wages and stuff- but I always say that my employees are mostly minorities who speak spanish and come from tough backgrounds, and they're as hard or harder working than myself.
Anyway, yeah, I just don't accept sob stories and expect people to work like I do I guess.
Edit- I also don't trust anybody but myself. Especially not the fucking government!